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Nave Topical Bible
• Hours
Thompson Chain Reference
• Third Hour
• Hour, Christ's
• Hour
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Three Hours' Service
• Hours of Prayer
• Canonical Hours
American Tract Society
• Hours
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Hour, the Last
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Canonical Hours
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Hour
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Hour (Figurative)
• Hour
King James Dictionary
• Hour
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Hour
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Scriptural Hours
• Prayer, Forty Hours'
• Hours, Scriptural
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Hours
• Hour
People's Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Hour
Webster Dictionary
• Kilowatt Hour
• Hours
• Hour
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Hours
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Canonical Hours
• Hour
• Hour Angle
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Hour
• Hours of Prayer
• Prayer, Hours of
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Hours
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Canonical Hours
• Holy Hours
• Hour
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Three Hours' Agony
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Canonical Hours
• Forty Hours' Devotion
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HOUR, n. our. L. hora also L. tempestivus, from tempus. See Time. But hour, hora, afterward came to signify a certain portion or division of the day. This has been different in different nations.

1. A space of time equal to one twenty fourth part of the natural day, or duration of the diurnal revolution of the earth. An hour answers to fifteen degrees of the equator. It consists of 60 minutes, each minute of 60 seconds, &c.

2. Time a particular time as the hour of death.

Jesus saith, woman,my hour is not yet come. John 2

3. The time marked or indicated by a chronometer, clock or watch the particular time of the day. What is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? I will be with you at an early hour.

Good hour, signifies early or seasonably.

You have arrived at a good hour.

To keep good hours, to be at home in good season not to be abroad late, or at the usual hours of retiring to rest.

Hours, in the plural, certain prayers in the Romish church, to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.